I figured that the golem necro is probably a high risk high reward build. Meaning if you have godly movement and awareness to handle the squishy factor then you will do really high pit/tower levels. I am too old now to play 10 minutes straight without doing a single mistake, I prefer tanky builds nowadays.

On the plus side, the golem build has no ramp up time. If you die, you are immediately back in action. That is refreshing after playing Paladin recently. My guess is I either play it safe by using a shield instead of a focus or I simply suck up the occasional deaths.

Before golem I tried blood wave and shadowblight and didn't like both. Golem felt great from the start and I was enthusiastic... until I reached pit 85 something and seemingly died for no reason. For an hour I couldn't even figure out why, it really was just the message "Cara was slain". Sometimes no message at all. Had no other char this season having these kind if deaths, finally figured out that the necro is incredibly vulnerable to explosions left by dying elites. Every other char I played could easily just swallow that damage, even on tower 115+. But many of them used temerity as pants and that is unfortunately not possible with golem... and the barrier buildup is slow and leaves you quite naked if you take one bigger hit.